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The Last Fighting General: The Biography of Robert Tryon Frederick

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A rich and rewarding look at the founder and commander of the First Special Service Force, and perhaps the most decorated senior ground commander of ww2.General Fredericks early life is well recorded and his combat history is covered well. This is a must have for FSSF and SF historians and recomended for the serious reader of ww2 military history.

An outstanding biography on a true American hero. This is one of the best biographies (possibly THE best) that I have ever read. Not only is the story of General Frederick extremely compelling, but Ms. Hicks does an excellent job in conveying both the professional and personal sides of this great man. I highly, highly recommend this book for any fan of military history, or for that matter, anyone interested in reading about a man who lived life with honor, and who was committed to helping their fellow man.

Excellent book.I have most of the books on the Devil's Brigade.
This is truly a book worth 5 stars!

The story of Gen. Frederick is amazing, to say the least. And, as much of a fan as I was of the movie "The Devil's Brigade," his true-life exploits were not covered nearly enough there, so this book really opens up the whole picture of this amazing individual. However, the writing style (or editing - I don't know which) in this particular book is not worthy of a professional publication. I find on every page errors in word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, idea development, etc. This makes for awkward reading and detracts from the otherwise terrific story. To the Publisher: Fix this book!

For a man whose character and accomplishments were monumental his story should have been handled by a writer with experience for well written prose and narrative. I struggled reading this book with its stilted, cumbersome and sometimes difficult and unbelievable phrasing. I've rarely encountered words such as humongous or pertinacious among others used in historical narrative. Nobody talks like this.
The author should have used, or at least someone from Schiffer should have suggested an editor to clean this up. I was suspect of the author's background where the inside jacket reads "...After attending university," What university? Any prior contributions to journals, magazines or other publications? A noble effort by Hicks but certainly not the paean Frederick deserves. Perhaps his story will be rewritten by an author with credentials and a knack for writing clear, succinct and cogent narrative.

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General Frederick is,as Gen Gavin, Gen Ridgeway, Gen Rose (Armored) and the eccentric Gen Patton (Armored)...the best of the best fighting Generals of WW-II

This is a "can't put it down book" This man was wounded doing what few Generals do, doing "recon" for his men before a battle and joining in the battle far to often but of course, all of us grunts love this guy for doing so as well as the aforementioned generals above although as I said George Patton was not the "fatherly" type but effective.

Strongly adise reading "The First Special Service Force" by Burhans